Publication detail

Performance Prediction of Cluster Computing

DVOŘÁK, V. ČEJKA, R.

Original Title

Performance Prediction of Cluster Computing

Type

article in a collection out of WoS and Scopus

Language

English

Original Abstract

In recent years, workstation clusters have become popular for solvingscientific problems and running computation-intensive simulations inparallel. We present a simple CSP-based model of this kind ofcomputing, suitable for dedicated clusters as well as for enterpriseclusters connected via Ethernet. A Transim tool can be used to simulatevarious parallel applications running on workstation clusters. Sincecommunication latency is quite high in clusters, prediction ofprocessor utilization, obtainable speedup and execution time are ofinterest. The Transim tool enables to find all these figures in minimumtime and with minimum effort. As an example, a solution of a largesystem of (1000+) linear equations on 8 workstations connected via ahardware router is simulated and results are presented.

Keywords

CSP, modeling, cluster computing, Transim

Authors

DVOŘÁK, V.; ČEJKA, R.

Released

1. 1. 1999

Publisher

Zilina University Publisher

Location

Sulov

ISBN

80-7100-635-1

Book

Proceedings of the International Workshop Modelling and Simulation in Management, Informatics and Control MOSMIC'99

Pages from

229

Pages to

233

Pages count

5

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT192270,
  author="Václav {Dvořák} and Rudolf {Čejka}",
  title="Performance Prediction of Cluster Computing",
  booktitle="Proceedings of the International Workshop Modelling and Simulation in Management, Informatics and Control MOSMIC'99",
  year="1999",
  pages="229--233",
  publisher="Zilina University Publisher",
  address="Sulov",
  isbn="80-7100-635-1"
}